Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
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When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.
Charles Spurgeon
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer
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We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.
Douglas Adams
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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